From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jan 17 10:38:15 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:38:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Eyvih-0003rP-Ft for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:38:15 -0800 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.193]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Eyvie-0003rI-SK for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:38:15 -0800 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 12so1442580nzp for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:38:11 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TpsCtNL3/JXshzs8jpbbkHRqSICN4M/xt6nD35U8HAHpLIDX2x6cBYq9jNNnqx9W0yyg9yO2FjgVV7sbxzg3ln4kHv0d7a0QW9HLOrlFwBgsWDMvR7LglyL7GyWpuryg37EYFDiJDw90GIVgp0PSWyg4G3DyqHQL+NcQUnVnp+w= Received: by 10.65.188.12 with SMTP id q12mr4013029qbp; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:38:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.193.13 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:38:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <537d06d00601171038vccff636l11ea52d160a0781f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:38:09 +0100 From: Philip Newton To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: ago In-Reply-To: <925d17560601171020u7b7d7114td42abd9854aaf279@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <537d06d00601170937p4cd75ca9x46a85a4023363da@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560601171020u7b7d7114td42abd9854aaf279@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2965 X-Approved-By: philip.newton@gmail.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: philip.newton@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 1/17/06, Jorge Llambías wrote: > On 1/17/06, Philip Newton wrote: > > How would one say something like "Three days ago, I went to the > > store"? Or, in general, "[time period] ago"? > > This is how *I* say it: > > mi pu klama le zarci za lo djedi be li ci Thank you! > zi/za/zu indicate a time displacement from the reference point, > and tag the magnitude of the displacement. vi/va/vu indicate > a time displacement from the reference point, and tag the > magnitude of the displacement. ITYM vi/va/vu indicate a *distance* displacement? Or what was the word you intended? mu'o mi'e .filip. -- Philip Newton